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LOUIE reverse heart disease and prostate cancer. What do you associate with the word Greece? OPS
PSIHOYOS This is without the use of medicine at all. I think the Greeks are full of life, they’re full
When archaeologists from Austria, dug up of strength. Whenever I’m in Greece and I’m
Academy Award-winning director the only known graves of gladiators, they did eating the food, living there, I feel as if I’m
analysis of the bones and they found that back home. I feel it’s going back to the roots,
AFTER THE COVE AND they were vegetarians. In the film, we look at what humans are meant to do and that’s to
RACING EXTINCTION, THE the situation through the most aspirational live well.
GREEK-AMERICAN DIRECTOR athletes in the world. We’re editing right now, Do you understand a little Greek?
IS ABOUT TO RELEASE HIS Arnold Schwarzenegger, who’s arguably one Λίγο. From when I was young. Κλεισ’το
NEW MOVIE. of the most famous strong men in the world, μεγάλο στόμα σου παιδάκι μου. [Laughter]
ΜΕΤΑ ΤΟ ΤHE COVE ΚΑΙ who’s saying, it’s a dangerous thing to eat Can you recall an exciting moment from your
ΤΟ RACING EXTINCTION, meat. We use aspirational athletes to look life as an activist?
Ο ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΚΑΤΑΓΩΓΗΣ at this - and I’m not talking about Arnold When we started “The Cove”, they were
ΣΚΗΝΟΘΕΤΗΣ ΕΤΟΙΜΑΖΕΙ ΜΙΑ Schwarzenegger, there’s one of the world’s killing 23.000 dolphins a year in Japan for
ΝΕΑ ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΠΤΙΚΗ ΤΑΙΝΙΑ. strongest men, Patrik Baboumian, who is human consumption and now they’re
vegan, he doesn’t eat any meat whatsoever. killing less than 3.000. So, that makes me feel
When will “Game changers”, your new Two of the top ten boxers right now are good, to know that people in Japan aren’t
documentary, be in theatres? vegan. The most accomplished female and being poisoned by toxic meat. When I was
Next summer. male ultra-runners are also vegan. at Sundance, I was a judge a few years ago
And the plot? What are the objectives of OPS? and I ran into someone who said “Racing
We’re trying to dispel the world’s most We used to joke, that we’re not trying to save Extinction” changed my life. I used to have
dangerous myth. That is, men think, to be the whole planet, just seventy percent of it. It two cattle operations and I got rid of both of
big and strong and healthy, you need to eat is a reference that 70% of the Earth is covered them, because of the film.
meat, when in fact meat is probably – and by oceans. But then with “Racing Extinction”,
remember, I was born Greek so we ate a lot we realised that if you want to save the CONTINUED ON PAGE 192
of meat growing up- the most dangerous oceans, you have to change what’s going on
thing a human being can do to their personal land, because what we do on land, directly Louie Psyhoyos during the filiming of The Cove
health and to environmental health, to eat affects the oceans. And then with the next documentary. "What's most exciting is when you see
animal protein. It’s responsible, probably, film, we realized that if you really want to save and hear about people who changed their life because
for more heart disease than any other thing, the oceans, keep the climate manageable and they've seen the film", he says. / Ο Louie Psyhoyos
it’s responsible for diabetes. A plant based keep wild spaces for wild animals, you have to στα γυρίσματα του ντοκιμαντέρ The Cove. " To πιο
diet, is the only diet in the world that can get off meat, because meat is the number one συναρπαστικό είναι όταν βλέπεις και ακούς ανθρώπους
cause of habitat destruction for wild animals. που άλλαξαν τη ζωή τους εξαιτίας της ταινίας", λέει.
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